The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-04
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal andLocaI.

Personal and Local.
The Indianapolis 6 Eincennes company is re-
ceiving from one of the Pittsburg mills 1000
tons of steel rails.
The l., D. & S. road earned in February $751;
$685. Increase over earnings corresponding
month. 1885, SO, 49, CO.
In the month of February there we're handled
at the Union Depot %, 80 pieces of baggage. OF
this number Z, ITO were checked out
The passenger agents and ticket agents on the
c., II. e l.. system were Yesterday instructed to
limit all mileage tickets sold to April T.
The receipts of the Pennsylvania Company
from their freight office, at Fort Wayne, during
the month of February, amounted to ST., 10
Commencing on next Sunday the l.. D. & s.
and Wabash will run through cars between In
dianapolis and st. Louis night trains, making
the same time as other lines.
Judge Cooley, the receiver of the Wabash. an
nounces that, on account of the interstate com
merce bill, he will not guarantee any tariff or
special rates after the LIST of April.
The New York Evening Post complains that
Erie did not in January earn the months propor-
ton IT yearly charges. No one expected IL
would. The same point might be made against
majority of all railroads in this country.
Work on the Corydon branch road in the
southern part of the State, has been suspended
for the present. also the operations over the por-
ton now completed The impression prevails
that the l.. E. & st. L. Airline will soon gather
in this road.
number of Boston capitalists are building a
railway of steel Instead of forming their
car by the current square-box pattern, they will
use, as far as possible, a curved design. Hot-air
pipes will heat the car, and compressible plat
form will render telescoping an impossibility.
Commissioner Fink, the leading railroad meta
physician in the country, thinks that the phrase
under substantially slmilar circumstances and
conditions" in the nterstate-commerce act can
be made to tolerate lower rates to competing
on fhn hat 10 ryYsct
conditions dissimilar.
Congressman w. r. Morrison" says the Chi
| cagO Business Nhas been named one OF the
members of the Interstate Commission. A man
| more unsuited for the place could not well be
| found. About the time he masters the rud1-
| ments of the transportation problem the pale
horse will pay him visit"
| W. M Buchanan, auditor of revenue of the
Baltimore & Ohio road. spent few hours yes
terday in the city. the guest of j. V. McNeale,
! auditor of the l., d. d s., who is an o!den time
| friend of Mr. Buchanan. Mr.. McNeale, showed
him the city. it being his first visit here, and he
was much pleased with the wide streets, fine
| blocks and residences.
There is grounds for uneasiness on the part
of the officials on the Decline over the election
| of j. D. Laying president as the directors by a
general resolution reelected all of the old exec
utive officials. Certainly with their record the
last year there was no cause for change, the
| property never in its history having been better
handled than in the year of 1886.
s'The Wabash road is in a queer way, says
| the Fort Wayne Sentinel in January they
had more business than cars; but last month it
| was reversed. The indications are that March
will prove big month with them, as there will
be an immense quantity OF wheat shipped from
inland elevators TO Toledo and lake ports. in
order to be secure against any trouble that might
arise from the interstate law"
The several freight associations in conference
at New York have abolished numerous existing
1b-dtr nnd nodn CIV %1o I'LL
freight whether moved east or west within the
territory covered by the Central Traffic Assoca
ton, the trunk-line commission and New Eng
land This makes the classification uniform in
all directions, and both through and local
freight, and also in effect reduces some of the
east bound rates to the level of the west-bound
tariff.
President Burke, the retiring president of the
Bee-line, appreciates the good work done on the
system last year. and closes his annual report in
the following words: much more than formal
mention Of the faithful, dligent and efficient
services of the officers and employees of the COM
pauy is due. During the past year 1T is but sim
pie justice to say that every officer and employe
has done his duty heartily and thoroughly, aud
they each and all merit the thanks and kind
consideration Of the company.
J. Fl. Woodland, Pacific coast agent of the
Wabash railway, sent the following telegram to
James Smith, general traffic manager of thai
line, yesterday:
If the interstate law is strictly observed
by all the lines, it will benefit our business on the
Pacific coast.
Mr.. Woodland has from the first been firm
believer in the advantages of the new law to the
railroads of the country. and he predicts tba
within two years the public will be clamorins
for its repeal
The Western Construction Company has en-
joined the New Albany Eastern Railroad
Company 70. q M. extension) from using tn,
| old grade of the New Albany & Sandusky rail
, road for their track between New Albany ant
Watson and it is likely to delay work on thi.
proposed road. Judge Ferguson has issued
temporary injunction against the New Albany
q Eastern railroad from using the old grade, ant
has set March Ii for hearing the case on It'll
merits Harry Crawford, the noted Chicago rail
road lawyer, has been employed by the consrruc
ton company to handle their case.
, The annual report of President Burke. of thu
Beeline system, for 1886, shows that the averag.
gross freight rate per ton mile earned by tn.
Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & indianapolis
railroad IS ,679 cent compared with ST cent il
1885, an increase OF H. 6S per cent: and the av
erage cost per ton mile is 444 cent compared
with 466 cent in 1885, a decrease of 4.72 pei
) cent The average gross freight rate per tol
mile earned by the Indianapolis & st. Louis
railway Is 728 cent, compared with 591 cent il
1885, an increase of % Is per cent; and tne av
erage cost per ton mile is .534 cent compared
with $40 cent in 1885, decrease Of LAT pei
cent.
} The Western railroad properties of the Van
derbilt and Seligman New York and Boston in
terests, are, it is said, about to be united, witt
St. Louis as the initial and terminal point, b,
the amalgamation of the Kansas City Short
line and the Missouri Central CONSOLIDATED
and the ST. Louis, Kansas City e Colorado rail
} roads. The fusion, while not contemplating
union of the entire Vanderbilt and Seligma
systems, anticipates, however. the closest run
ming arrangements The plans have progresse
so far. contingent only on the erection of ney
bridge over the Mississippi river at st. Louis
that John D. Perry Of that city, has bee
offered the presidency Of the new consolidation
, When the new union depot and immense shed
are completed at Indianapolis there will be. it
n stated, the largest mileage of track under cove
v To hef 0u0 in ha ~